A486 crash in Ceredigion on 9 October 2009 at 17:33 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva crashed on the A486 in Ceredigion at 17:33 on Friday 9 October 2009. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2009
- Friday, 17:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.2089, longitude -4.36846, in the SA45 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ceredigion
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200963BC18209
- Council area
- Ceredigion
- Police force
- Dyfed-Powys
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 486
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 24 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199963AA15399
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 17 January 2004
40 m awayRef 200463BC01004
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 28 March 1995
51 m awayRef 199563B511295
Serious
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 24 September 1999
112 m awayRef 199963AA17399
Slight
Bus crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 9 September 2006
114 m awayRef 200663BC22506
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A486 in Ceredigion, 19 September 1990
114 m awayRef 199063B546990
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Meriva)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200963BC18209 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ceredigion road accident statistics for 2009.